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Death on a Sunday Morning
(1978)(The seventh book in the Detective Johnny Inch series)
A novel by J F Straker
A bank in a country town is robbed in the dead of night, and a couple left mercilessly locked inside the vault.
Meanwhile, in a small village, a car explodes into smithereens.
The two passengers are violently killed, as well as an innocent passer-by.
In another village, a woman is kidnapped from her beautiful house, and subsequently found splayed on a bed in a tiny attic, strangled to death.
With three cases on their hands, each the more puzzling than the next, the police begin to realise that these deaths are intrinsically linked.
But their investigations are hampered by the kidnapped woman's husband.
He spins a sprawling web of lies to avoid incriminating himself elsewhere.
The final face-off and bitter conflict between two groups of criminals leads to a grim and grisly denouement in an isolated riverside cottage.
Death on a Sunday Morning is a fast-paced crime thriller that promises to grip readers from the first page to the last.
'A perfectly plotted story that is both chilling and memorable.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of The Lunar Code
'Like all Mr Straker's books, keeps the reader baffled with its unexpected twist and turns' - The Daily Telegraph
'Mr Straker is one of a comparatively small number of writers who produce what may be called 'the typical British detective story', strong in plot and character drawing and with a minimum of violence and brutality' - Current Literature
'J. F. Straker thinks up ingenious plots for his books and in the class of story which he writes (a mixture between the whodunit and the thriller) ingenuity of plot counts for a lot' - Wolverhampton Express
'A gripping page-turner than kept me guessing to the last page.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
Meanwhile, in a small village, a car explodes into smithereens.
The two passengers are violently killed, as well as an innocent passer-by.
In another village, a woman is kidnapped from her beautiful house, and subsequently found splayed on a bed in a tiny attic, strangled to death.
With three cases on their hands, each the more puzzling than the next, the police begin to realise that these deaths are intrinsically linked.
But their investigations are hampered by the kidnapped woman's husband.
He spins a sprawling web of lies to avoid incriminating himself elsewhere.
The final face-off and bitter conflict between two groups of criminals leads to a grim and grisly denouement in an isolated riverside cottage.
Death on a Sunday Morning is a fast-paced crime thriller that promises to grip readers from the first page to the last.
Praise for J F Straker
'A perfectly plotted story that is both chilling and memorable.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of The Lunar Code
'Like all Mr Straker's books, keeps the reader baffled with its unexpected twist and turns' - The Daily Telegraph
'Mr Straker is one of a comparatively small number of writers who produce what may be called 'the typical British detective story', strong in plot and character drawing and with a minimum of violence and brutality' - Current Literature
'J. F. Straker thinks up ingenious plots for his books and in the class of story which he writes (a mixture between the whodunit and the thriller) ingenuity of plot counts for a lot' - Wolverhampton Express
'A gripping page-turner than kept me guessing to the last page.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
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